Main entry:

Heathcote, Edwin.

Title & Author:

Church builders / Edwin Heathcote and Iona Spens.

Publication:

Chichester, West Sussex : Academy Editions, 1997.

Description:

224 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 31 cm

Notes:
Distributed in the United States by National Book Network, Lanham, Md.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 220-221) and index.
Preface / Edwin Heathcote and Iona Spens -- The twentieth-century church : the enigma of sacred objectivity / Edwin Heathcote. A matter of morality -- Arts and crafts -- Secession : rationalism and nationalism -- Gaudi : a rational expression of piety -- German expressionism : the star and the sacred mountain -- Auguste Perret : prophet of the modern church -- Modernism and liturgical reform : a brief background -- The church incarnate : modernism and the church -- Switzerland : the consolidation of modernism -- Europe between the wars -- Post-war developments : theology and architecture -- Post-war Germany : a church meant for our own time -- The church building as art : Le Corbusier and the Mediterranean -- United States of America : 'for the worship of God and the service of man' -- South America -- Scandinavia : modernism : the organic and the rational -- Elsewhere in Europe -- Movements of the Spirit / Iona Spens. Maguire and Murray -- Siren Architects -- Justus Dahinden -- Suomalainen Architects -- Richard England -- Philip Johnson -- Tadao Ando -- Mario Botta -- Juha Leiviska -- Imre Makovecz -- Legorreta Arquitectos -- Fay Jones -- Steven Holl Architects -- Maki and Associates -- Alvaro Siza -- Church of the Year 2000, Rome : Tadao Ando, Gunter Behnisch, Santiago Calatrava, Frank Gehry, Peter Eisenman, Richard Meier.
Also issued online.
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Dust jacket.

Summary:

"This book traces developments in church building through the momentous changes in architecture and theology in the twentieth century. It illustrates the broad spectrum of modern ecclesiastical architecture which has emerged as the synthesis of the pluralism of the turn of the century and the purity and clarity of the Modern Movement"--Cover

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

0471977551
9780471977551

Subject:

Church architecture.
Architecture, Modern 20th century.
Religious architecture Europe 20th century.
Religious architecture United States 20th century.
Architecture religieuse Europe 20e siècle.
Architecture religieuse États-Unis 20e siècle.
Architecture religieuse 20e siècle Europe Dessins et plans.
Architecture religieuse 20e siècle États-Unis Dessins et plans.
Architecture chrétienne.
Architecture 20e siècle.
churches (buildings)
Religious architecture
Architecture, Modern
Kirchenbau
Kerkgebouwen.
Church architecture History 20th century.
Architecture and religion.
Architecture religieuse 20e siècle.
Church architecture History.
United States
Europe
Architecture.

Form/genre:

Architectural drawings

Added entries:

Spens, Iona.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 191847
Call No.: ID NA4825.H42; ID:97-B2881
Status: Available